The hours everybody spends in supermarkets, picking out the things they don't want to buy, so they're only left with what they want... But the alternative is worse...

[–] exocrinous@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Let's rephrase:

Despite being appointed president for four years, Donald Trump has never been elected by the popular will of the people.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ok, but that has never been the way the president has been selected? The popular vote for president isn't how the American Election system works and never has. Do you get upset if in football the team with the most yards doesn't win? Or the most base hits? Or the most gold in League of Legends?

[–] exocrinous@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

We're not talking about whether the US does things like it's always done. We're talking about whether it's a democracy and whether the views of the government are the views of the people. It does pretty poorly on the first one and fails completely on the second.

[–] chillhelm@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago

They both approximate perfect representation close enough. If the difference between one government or the other comes down to variations that are basically explained by the weather being good or bad on voting day, you can't really claim that the government isn't representative.

Just because it didn't represent YOUR opinion, it doesn't make it less representative. A truly representative government will make decisions that align with 10% of the population 10% of the time. So if 10% of the population want to bomb Canada a perfectly representative government will make it happen every 40 years or so.